A Shutter on Time.

Nigel Housden - Professional Photographer & Photojournalist

I have always been interested in Natural History and photography as the means to capture images of the variety and beauty within the natural and manufactured world of human beings. My interests in nature and wildlife, conservation, travel by bicycle and rural affairs, enabled me to build up a rapidly developing portfolio and client list, when I started out as a professional over 25 years ago.

In this time I have worked for most of the mainstream media (which has included Sky, BBC Countryfile, Future Publishing, IPC Media, TI-Inc, Bauer Media, Archant, Newsquest and global publishing houses), numerous conservation trusts and charities, PR companies and private individuals. The themes and styles have changed in step with demands of the current millenium; our countryside, diminished wild solitary places and wildlife biodiversity have come under incessant pressure from urban development, continued habitat destruction and widespread pollution.

And through a multitude of restrictions and impositions our freedoms have also become diminished.

The place of photography is to bear witness and document the affliction of a rapidly changing world - celebrating the accomplishments and exposing the abhorrent

The historic land clearances and systematic enclosure of commoners land are echoes from an older period of rural life but, in its various, wider and Political forms, this rhyme is as relevant today as it was in the late 1700’s:

They hang the man and flog the woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But let the greater criminal loose

Who steals the common from the goose 

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